David Crosthwait Jr Quotes

#1. He's throwing everything he can into the air on the chance that something might take flight. And we're the smallest, weakest bird.

Ally Condie

#2. I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have few words in them; some good films have a lot of words in them.

Tom Stoppard

#3. You didn't even know my name, I thought. You're just repeating what he said.

David Levithan

#4. Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.

Robert Masello

#5. If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.

Jean Baudrillard

#6. If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

Jennifer Connelly

#7. If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.

Gilles Deleuze

#8. You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life.

Paul Samuelson

#9. The cabinets and shelves are a bright busy choreography of oils, shampoos, conditioners, scrubs, lotions, salts, unguents. Zinnia loves buying pots and bottles and tubes of alchemised essences that smell like yearning or intimacy on the skin.

Glenn Haybittle

#10. Maybe she has no idea what happened to us, even if we're alive or dead. Look at your life.

Tim Green

#11. The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

Mark Twain

#13. I just want my stories to be mine.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#14. You may have noticed that Senator Obama's supporters have been saying some pretty nasty things about western Pennsylvania lately. And you know, I couldn't agree with them more.

John McCain